Sacramento County Biographies

ROBERT WILLIAMSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	resides in Sacramento City. He was born in Louisiana in 
1827, and in 1833 moved to Illinois. Here he engaged in farming and nursery 
business until 1862, and then came to California were he embarked in nursery and 
merchandising. He was the founder of the Capital Nursery at Sacramento, and the 
Orange Hill Nursery, in Placer county, of which Williamson & Co. are the owners, 
and he has a one-third interest in the fruit, produce and seed store of W. R. 
Strong & Co., of Sacramento. In 1853 he married Miss P. M. Crawford, a native of 
Illinois. They have five sons. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.